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JUNE

17, 238 --Italy. At Aquileja, Thrax, Caius Julius, Verus Maximinus dies. He is the first barbarian to occupy Caesar’s throne. As a young man, he stood eight feet tall and was a cowherd. As Emperor, he will have a special hatred for Origin due to his relations with the household of Alexander Severus. The Church Father will find refuge in the home of Juliana, a Christian woman.
     During his reign, an earthquake will occur and which will be blamed upon the Christians. Therefore, in Pontus and Cappadocia, the populace will rise up against the saints.

17, 362 --Italy. Julian the Apostate passes his school law requiring candidates for teaching positions to obtain a license from the local authorities or from the Emperor himself. The purpose is to exclude Christians from teaching positions.

17, 1227 --Germany. A Bull calling for the extirpation of heresy is decreed that gives full power to Conrad of Marbury, the Inquisitor General. Gregory’s chief bull against heresy in Germany will increase his powers, but when Frederick II gives Imperial confirmation to Rome’s severity, then “began the flame to get power over mortals.” He will dispense with ordinary forms of trial and will bring thousands to their death.

17, 1703 --England. John Wesley is born to Samuel and Susannah Wesley. He is their thirteenth child.

17, 1812 --India. Adoniram Judson and Samuel Nervell along with their wives arrive by ship in Calcutta.

17, 1836 --Ohio. At Cincinnati, in the Pastoral address of the bishops meeting here in the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodists ministers are warned “to abstain from all abolition movements and associations and to refrain from patronizing any of their publications.”

17, 1873 --England. Dwight Lyman Moody has returned to England bringing with him Mr. Ira David Sankey. Their first evangelistic services will be held in York.

17, 1963 --Washington, D. C. In the two court cases involving Abington versus Schenipp, and Murray versus Baltimore School Board, the Supreme Court rules eight to one “Unconstitutional” the reading of the Bible or the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in a public school.

18, 1530 --Germany. The Emperor demands all Protestant preaching cease in the city of Augsburg and dismisses several preachers.

18, 1744 --Switzerland. Antoine Court, the Preacher of the Desert, the Huguenot Church in France, is in exile. Today he is chosen General Deputy by the National Synod.

18, 1791 --Rhode Island. Saturday, At Bristol, Francis Asbury writes, “ ...I fear religion is extinguished by confining it too much to church and Sunday services, and reading of sermons ... I find reason to hope that souls have gone to glory from this town.”

19, 325 --Turkey. The Council of Nicea promulgates the Nicene Creed.

19, 1525 --Switzerland. Effort has been made that every day publicly and for one hour the Holy Scriptures should be preached and taught in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin tongues. Today, it is put into force under the leadership of Zwingli. At eight o’clock each morning except Fridays and Sundays, all the pastors of the city, including students and chaplains, come together, and after a short prayer, a chapter of the Old Testament is read, and followed by an exposition on doctrine or on Practice.

 
 
 

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